Shōwa
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A Showa-period privy at Tano, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. Just 7 square metres, it has a hip-and-gable roof and a round window in the refined tea-house manner.
A steel tower off Kochi: 64 spiral steps drop seven meters under Tatsukushi Bay to round windows on the reef. Built 1971, registered 2022, closed since May 2026.
In the old merchant town of Tano, Kochi, this small 1938 storehouse shows Tosa craft clearly: thick lime-plaster walls banded by four tiers of rain-cutting tiles.
In Tano, Shikoku's smallest town, this 1937 cultural property gave a coastal fishing master's home the formal entrance and gentry rooms of a samurai house.
Built in 1938 for the Arisawa, who owned Tano's fishing fleet, this timber annex keeps a beach-facing passage—a registered cultural property in old-town Tano, Kochi.
In the fishing town of Usa in Kochi, this around-1947 registered building holds four rooms set in the order dried bonito is made: boiling, smoking, mold, storage.
In Usa, a Kochi town known as the birthplace of Tosa-bushi, these two 1947 buildings are where the Izumi family prepared and sun-dried bonito for katsuobushi.
A Tosa fishing-town house rebuilt around 1947 after the 1946 Nankai earthquake, its plaster gables banded with mizukiri-gawara drip-tiles, the upper floor one hall.
A 1935 nine-span concrete bridge over the upper Shimanto River in Kochi, registered in 2000, the oldest surviving bridge in the basin built to go under in floods.
Folded-plate concrete shell museum of 1966 by Hayashi Masako on the Tatsukushi coast, Kochi; skylight bathes Kurohara Kazuo's shells in an underwater glow.
A 1938 storehouse in Nahari, Kochi, built by a farm cooperative and registered in 2000, with drip tiles on its gable and plastered eaves.
Reinforced-concrete bridge of 1935 over the Doi River in Niyodogawa, Kochi, 69 metres long on Flemish-bond brick piers, also used as a market square for the village.
Small concrete arch of 1944 on the former Taisho forest railway at Koyagauchi, Shimanto, Kochi, with walls of locally quarried stone; now used as a town road.
Forest railway tunnel of 1944 at Koyagauchi, Shimanto, Kochi, cutting through a bend of the Yusuhara River; at 138 metres the longest on the line, now a town road.
Three-arch concrete bridge of 1944 on the former Taisho forest railway at Shimotsui, Shimanto, Kochi, 82 metres long and known locally as the Spectacles Bridge.
Concrete arch of 1944 on the former Taisho forest railway at Eshi, Shimanto, Kochi, beside a stone road bridge of about 1935; together they trace local transport.
An early Showa annex behind a Susaki merchant's house: a tiled hipped roof outside, king post trusses over a post-free kitchen and a straight-grained ceiling inside.
A 1935 reinforced concrete bridge over the Niyodo River in Kochi, railless and built to be overtopped by floods, its 13-metre arch springing from bedrock.
Keikiso in Kami, Kochi, is the thatched cottage of 1934 where the poet Yoshii Isamu lived in seclusion, a simple retreat with tasteful sukiya details.
The Goto Family Residence Office, a 1949 building of 17 square metres in Aki, is registered for its gently curved hip-and-gable roof and big south and west windows.